AGMA Holdings Limited on Friday, under its subsidiary, AXA Bus Service, launched a new fleet of 15 Deluxe Coaches worth K1.5 billion with its Chairperson, Mark Katsonga announcing to have retired from his position. The new coach-buses set to hit the roads of Malawi were commissioned with special prayers by Father John Kuziona of ST […]
Malawi opposition Peoples Progressive Movement (PPM) has disclosed that the party’s convention will be held in July this year in readiness for the tripartite polls next year. PPM Secretary General Wellington Chatepa said election of their presidential candidate ahead of the polls is topping the agenda at the meeting. “PPM convention will be held in […]
Malawi’s opposition People’s Progressive Movement (PPM) president Mark Katsonga has called for an immediate resignation of President Joyce Banda and her administration to make way for early elections. Katsonga told a news conference in Blantyre on Friday that President Banda could not go up to next year’s polls at the rate she was going, saying she should […]
People’s Progressive Movement (PPM) president Mark Katsonga has called for the opposition to provide strong checks and balances to President Joyce Banda’s Peoples Party (PP) governance of the country. He was speaking at Nselema primary school in Machinga when he welcomed about 200 people in who have joined PPM after dumping the ruling PP. Katsonga […]
Opposition Peoples Progressive Movement (PPM) president Mark Katsonga has advised government to take a step further on the fertilizer subsidy programme which is facing continued irregularities from politicians and officials alike. Corruption, delayed distribution, coupons ending up in wrong hands and being sold at exorbitant prices are some of the issues covered in the party’s […]
The interim president of People’s Progressive Movement (PPM), Mark Katsonga Phiri has recently been vocal speaking against the tendency of other politicians who are changing their allegiance from one party to another at will particularly those in government. Katsonga Phiri has been telling Malawians that these people should not be taken seriously as they […]
People’s Progressive Movement (PPM) president Mark Katsonga says the Joyce Banda administration has not come out clear on the Economic Recovery Plan (ERP) formulated to resuscitate the economy, saying it is mere lip-service. According to Malawi Minister of Economic Planning and Development, Atupele Muluzi , the recovery plan is a product of extensive local consultation by the […]
People’s Progressive Movement (PPM) president Mark Katsonga has said he will ensure that Agricultural Development and Marketing Corporation (Admarc) will be reformed to allow it to properly market Malawian farm produce on the international market. Katsonga said many problems Malawi is facing are the pillars of poverty which political leaders have created over the past […]
People’s Progressive Movement (PPM) president Mark Katsonga Phiri who has declared his ambitions to run for presidency in 2014 elections, says he will declare his assets. President Joyce Banda has been under pressure from civil society groups to declare her wealth, three months after she assumed the office of the presidency after the death of Bingu wa Mutharika in […]
People’s Progressive Movement (PPM) president Mark Katonga Phiri says he is against tendency of recycling politicians at the expense of the youth. Katsonga said the “greedy” politicians who are being recycled form one ruling party to the other are suffocating the growth of the country’s democracy. He was speaking at his home area, at Ligowe […]
Despite being cleared of any wrong doing in the K30 billion Malawi Revenue Authority (MRA) illegal borrowing scandal, Finance Minister Ken Lipenga has been labelled “inefficient” by the opposition People’s Progressive Moment (PPM). The cabinet committee inquiry established that the decision to borrow was illegal “as it did not follow procedures and was taken by […]
Leaders of opposition parties in Malawi on Thursday addressed a joint press conference in the commercial capital, Blantyre, where they admonished President Bingu wa Mutharika and his DPP regime over various governance lapses. The leaders, who included NRP president Gwanda Chakuamba, PPM leader and business magnet Mark Katsonga, MAFUNDE leader and Balaka legislator George Nnesa, […]
Malawi opposition parties have ratcheted up political pressure on President Bingu wa Mutharika to release detained outspoken critic Ralph Kasambara by Monday or face ‘social discontent’. The parties said Mutharika administration should release Kasambara by 12 PM of Monday, 20th February 2012 or else they would use “political means” to have him freed. They noted […]
Malawi civil society organisations and opposition have said only a referendum can give people in the country a genuine platform to decided whether President Bingu wa Mutharika should continue ruling the country or not. Addressing the press in Blantyre, a rights activists under the name Human Rights Defenders claimed that Mutharika has lost the mandate and […]
We gonna chase those crazy Baldheads out of town; I’n’I build a cabin; I’n’I plant the corn; Didn’t my people before me Slave for this country? Now you look me with that scorn, Then you eat up all my corn. Build your penitentiary, we build your schools, Brainwash education to make us the fools. Hate […]
Peoples Progressive Movement (PPM) president Mark Katsonga says ruling DPP should be getting out of power in 2014 and says Malawians will not accept a dynasty. DPP will be fielding President Bingu wa Mutharika’s brother, Peter, as its presidential candidate in 2014 elections. But Katsonga said Malawi will not accept dynastyisation of presidency. “Succession should not […]